The Work

Mechanisms in Your Head That Would Allow You to Function

Local people like Lillian McGill were essential partners in SNCC’s efforts, first encouraging people to register to vote and later helping to build independent political party in Lowndes County. Out canvassing, McGill could explain to her fellow Lowndes citizens in concrete terms how electing Black people to office would impact their daily lives.

Residents looking over brochure of political candidates before election day in Lowndes County, 1966, Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection, ADAH